essentially

British  

/ ɪˈsɛnʃəlɪ /

adverb

1. in a fundamental or basic way; in essence

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Example Sentences

Swanberg has long worked in an unusual style in which the script is essentially a detailed outline and the actors work to come up with their own dialogue during rehearsals.

From Los Angeles Times

That hasn’t stopped publicly traded business development companies, which are essentially closed-end funds managed by private-credit firms, from seeing a huge selloff over the past few months, alongside shares of the asset managers themselves.

From MarketWatch

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, that measure was 3.1% in January, essentially unchanged from a year ago and well above the Fed’s 2% target, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal

Free cash flow, which is essentially cash from operations minus capital spending, is supposed to be a pure metric of a firm’s value creation.

From Barron's

The judge said the government had produced “essentially zero evidence” that Powell had committed a crime.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• actually
• approximately
• necessarily
• originally
• permanently
• quite
• really
• substantially
• truly
• typically
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